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Ezra Pound Translations of Greek Drama

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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Pound

American poet and critic, leader of the Imagists, Ezra Pound was also a scholar and respected translator.

The collection consists of typescripts, with holograph emendations, of Pound's English translations of Sophocles' Electra and The Women of Trachis.

Publication: The Women of Trachis (New York: New Directions, 1957)

This collection was purchased from Omar Pound in 1987.

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Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.

Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.

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Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2008
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The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Sophokles and Elektra A Version by Ezra Pound and Rudd Fleming, 1987. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Elektra Transcripts, Original, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Elektra Transcripts (Xerox), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Elektra Transcripts, Re-typed by R.F. with Additional Corrections by E.P., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Elektra Transcripts, Re-typed by R.F. with Additional Corrections by E.P. (Xerox), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Elektra Transcripts, Draft I, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Elektra Transcripts, Draft II, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Elektra Transcripts, Draft III, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Elektra Transcripts, Draft IV, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Elektra Transcripts, Draft V, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Elektra Fleming/Pound Collaboration Notes, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Trachiniae- "Women of Trachis" Transcripts, Original, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Trachiniae- "Women of Trachis" Transcripts, Rough Drafts, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Women of Trachis/Sophokles," A Version by Ezra Pound, Printed Copy, 1957. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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